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. UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

cIIARLEs M. cRANDALL, or MoNfrRosE, PENNSYLVANIA, AssIGNoR To ERED W.cRANDALL AND BENJAMIN L. BALDWIN, ROTH or sAME PLAGE.

Toy;

SITECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 294,590, dated March4, 1884.

Appnoation filed November 23, 1883. (No model.)

of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Toys; andI do hereby de clare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being had to the accompanying sheetof drawings, form'- ing part of thisspeciication. l

This invention is in the nature of an improvement in toys; and theinvention consists in a toy constructed, arranged, and combined in themanner hereinafter particularly shown, described, and claimed.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings,

Figurel isa perspective view of block. Fig.'

2 is a cross-section of same. side View.

This invention relates especially to that class of toys which instructand amuse.

In the construction of my toy a right-angu la'r block, A, is secured atright angles to a suitable foundation, B. The block A on its frontsurface is painted or otherwise ornamented to represent a row of houses,a, of any suitable design. The rear surface of this block is providedwith sliding guides b, a series of upper stop-pins, c, and lowercatch-pins, d. Passing vertically between the sliding guides b are aseries of plates, C, of wood or any other suitable material. Theseplates are arranged so that one plate will be exactly over one of thehouses represented on the face of the block A, throughout the series ofplates and houses. The faces of the plate C are ornamented to representanv individual or an animal-for in- Fig. 3 is a rear stance, JackHorner,77 DameTrot 850.4-

and the depicted house immediately in front of each character may bear acorresponding name. Each plate C, besides its face ornamentation, hasformed in it a vertical slot, e,

i and secured to the guides band to the lower part of the plates C areelastic cords f, so 'arl ranged as to be at their greatest tension whenthe plates C are in their lowest position. Through the foundation B passa series of plungers, g, which extend entirely through the foundation,being somewhat longer than it, and terminating at their front l endsinto knobs h.

N ow, when my toy is constructed substantially as hereinbeforedescribed, itis operated in this wise: The plates C are `drawn downwardbetween the guides b, stretching by this means the elastic cords f. Atthis lowest position the plates C are retained by the catchpins d., Thetoy being placed ata suitable distance on the door, balls k are rolleduntil they impinge against the knobs h of the plungers g. The

impact of the balls drives in the plungers, 6o

which in turn force the lower part of the plates C outward, freeing themfrom the catch-pins d, when at once the elastic cords f are permitted toexert their resilient force andv throw upward the plates C, to whichthey are at- A tached, until they are stopped by the pins c. The platesG being projected upward, they expose their ornament-al front surfaceabove the houses, to the rear of which they are secured, thereby givingthe impression that 7c each house has an occupant who has suddenlyjumped up through the roof. Each of the houses may bear a number, e,which the players may, if they choose, utilize by transforming the toyinto a-simple gaine, the person striking the plungers of the houses withthe highest single or aggregate numbers being the Winner; or the`numbers may be used to teach addition.

Instead of causing the block A to represent 8o not, therefore, desire tolimit my invention to 8 5 the arrangement or combination of a series ofhouses with the other mechanical devices hereinbefore named; but,

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters 9o Patent, is-

j A toy composed of the foundation B, having av 4series of houses, a, atright angles to the same, each house bearing a given name, and

provided at its rear with guides, elastics, and

stop-pins, combined with a figure for each house, representing the nameson the houses, and adapted tobe projected into view from the roofs ofthe houses by the mechanism here inbefore described.

CHARLES M. CRANDALL. itnesseszl G. M. PLYMrToN, EDWARD L. JOHNS.

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